The text of a talk given at Parklands by Eugene
Halliday. Ishval Audio 81.

Now I am going to talk about corks, bobbing in the bath
water.

“I have loved Jacob and hated Esau,” saith the Lord.
Why should God say I have loved one human being and hated another
human being?

The answer is that Jacob means, in the lexicon, it
means supplanter, cunning fellow, someone that can take your heritage
away from you surreptitiously. But it really means something else. It
means, ‘affirm the secret, affirm coverage, do not expose all your
weapons.’ Now Esau means a hairy man, a wild man, an uncivilised
man, a person of impulse and a person prepared to swap his heritage
for a pair of chopsticks and a bowl of Egyptian beans. One chopstick
is quite easy to handle beans with, two beans, one chopstick. The
idea is that the nomadic peoples of the world were not going to make
a civilisation. We see this in modern Iran an Afghanistan and
suchlike places. Wherever there are nomadic peoples today, they are
progressively being displaced by the founders of settled
civilisations. And, if we don’t make a civilisation, we cannot
build a mathematical, geometrical, logical, scientific world. The
nomad riding his camel or his pony, doesn’t build a great science
such as we see today. If we had all nomads for our ancestors, we
would be coming here on camels, or donkeys, or even on each other,
because you know that long time ago, the weaker people in the head
and stronger in the. leg were used as ponies by rather overweight,
wealthy, intelligent men, but you wouldn’t have been coming in a
car, you would not have been coming in a reciprocating engine device,
nor a turbine device, those of you who have turbines driving your
cars, stand up and be recognised as in the mode! You would rather
have been on foot or riding on some creature and you would not be
civilised, sitting on chairs You might sit on the floor like nomadic
peoples do; you might make good carpets like nomadic peoples do,
because they put those on the floors that they don’t immediately
get eaten by beetles and ants.

I have loved Jacob because he made the great
civilisation and his brother Esau was a wild, uncontrolled,
non-civiliser. Now ‘hate’ what does hate mean? Hate means that a
power structure shall be fixated so that it cannot move. So the
dialectic is that a moving, nomadic person, was fixated in his
development. He couldn’t develop a civilisation because he was
roaming about; whereas the man that settled down and made a city and
made agriculture to feed the city, and made an army to defend the
agriculture and the city; made a science to recruit the army, that
man is not fixated. So the apparently fixated man, the city-dwelling
fellow, is somehow not fixed at all, because his intellect is
developing and he is gradually acquiring more and more power, more
and more knowledge of the whole Universe.

It couldn’t be a nomadic people that put the first men
on the Moon; it couldn’t be a nomadic people that have got
somewhere wandering beyond the orbit of Pluto some kind of device
that can travel to the furthest stars. A nomadic people cannot build
that kind of a concept. So the hate means fixate the power of the
inefficient.

You know that Indian Philosophy, Shiva is the destroyer,
Brahma is the Creator, Vishnu is the Preserver and Shiva is the
destroyer. Destroyer of what?, Destroyer of the useless, destroyer of
rubbish and therefore the preserver of anything whatever that
anything that is useful and progressive.

Track 2

Now I said I was going to talk about corks, and we will
see here, how this applies. We all know today, as a matter of fact,
not fantasy, that matter can be broken down and demonstrated to be
energy. So we have to think about the Universe as a great ocean of
energy, a we know, by the rotation of the planets round the Sun, and
the sun and the whole Solar system rotates round another point in a
star system far away, all reality is rotational. So if we imagine the
greatest rotation that we can and call that the big Universe. You
could say macro-cosmos if you liked or go even bigger, magalo-cosmos,
the biggest of the big. Now imagine a colossal ocean, spherical. You
know our word ocean is from a Greek word and that word meant a
circular river. Okeanus
means a circular river surrounding the Universe. It was merely their
mythological expression for the universe is a rotating energy system.
Now, therefore, we can say, imagine, there’s a couple of friends
of mine here tonight, and they have got a fair approximation to a
circular bath, you have a circular bath as well as a long one; so
imagine that the whole Universe is a vast ocean, circular, surrounded
by a spinning belt of power to keep it in, and call it the
megalo-bath, call it big bath, the big universe. The word bath and
beth means house, the
second letter of the Hebrew alphabet, a dwelling, a place where you
can live.

Now imagine a vast house, the biggest house we can
imagine, made of pure power, and beyond this bath, this dwelling,
this macro-cosmos there is Infinite power, non-rotating. Think about
that very carefully. Imagine an infinite ocean that wasn’t rotating
at all, extending in six directions, at right angles to each other,
three planes of being, extending

with no edges. If it had no edges, it could not be. The
word ‘be’ means to encapsulate, it means to rotate, to circulate.
If energy is scattered and doesn’t begin to rotate again, it is
lost in Infinity.

Now, to stop the loss of infinite energy in Infinity,
the simple device, the Sentient Power, which we call the Godhead,
spun he power, made it spin round, and in so doing established a big
bath, a big Universe, the letter M, the mem
of Hebrew, signifies the water in the bath and also, substance,
because water is plastic water can assume any shape whatever, so
water is the perfect type of an original, prime material

Now, imagine, within that vast, spherical ocean, that
great cosmok bath. I said ‘cosmok’ there, a case of closure that
holds it in and stops it dissipating.

Now we have likewise, a skin, an integument which holds
our body in. Our body is nearly all water with a few chemical
precipitates in it to turn that water into an electrolyte so that
nervous impulses can be transmitted in it So imagine, sitting inside
your skin is an ocean of life fluid. We call it protoplasm a sort of
colloidal, jelly-like substance. Now remember that S equals P,
sentience is power. And remember that you cannot have a dualism
because an ultimate dualism would have two fundamental entities,
utterly different, and if they were utterly different they could not
interact, but they do. Our sentience and our power interact.
Sentience is our capacity to feel and power is our capacity to change
the form of our being, the form of our action, the mode in which our
feeling expresses itself.

So we can say S equals P, sentience equals power; the
power is our ability to move, the sentience is our capacity to know
that we move.

Track 3

Now, in this vast spherical ocean of Sentient Power,
there is a capacity for Self-mobilisation. The Self there is a
capital S and means the whole sphere of the great Universe. Now,
inside this sphere there is a process of turbulence, turba,
turnings. Which make little turnings within the big turning, and the
little turnings go right down to sub-atomic level. Then at half way
between the smallest sub-atomic particle. And the biggest system of
stars we can see, half way between is the human being. The human
being is a half way being between the infinitely small and the
infinitely large, and I am going to ask you to imagine that this
human being is a little turning system, quite complex, because it is
made of even smaller turnings, and it’s half way between the
smallest and the largest of the turnings. In the Bible it says, “When
time ceases there will be no shadow of turning.” What we call
shadow in the Universe is the function of turning. If all the energy
in the Earth did not go round, or of the other planets, the Earth
could not cast a shadow. The Sun, not meeting a rotating energy would
go straight on, there would be no shadow, so it’d not just a
mythical guess but at the end of time is the cessation of turning,
there will be no shadow of turning at the end of time. At the end of
time everything returns into an absolute condition of Sentient Power,
not rotating, but fully conscious of all the rotations that have ever
been made by it in constituting for it Cosmic memory.

Now, we, as half way systems of turnings between the
minutest and the greatest, we are like a little cork. I want you to
look at the word ‘cork’ COR the basis of coeur,
cor, heart. This thing, any ‘Frogs’ in
the audience will have an approximation to that word, and also the
British, English word ‘courage,’ coeur age
.courage It is in the heart it’s inthe feeling. Now think of the word ‘cork’
symbolising cour that
is to say, running round, closed. The K on the end of the word means
to close, and inside the closure, there is a running around, a
coursing, which makes a heart.

You know our own heart, four-chambered is actually
produced by a circulation of energy in the developing embryo, the
rotation builds the heart. And that cor,
the same cor as in the
word ‘ chorus,’ that cor
is a running around within an enclosure.

Now imaging that throughout Infinite space, in that
great megalo-cosmos, there are an infinity of little corks bobbing
about and they are human beings, but remember the cork is not a
different substance from the energy of the ocean in which it floats.

How many of you, in your holiday travels through oceans,
have looked over the edge of the boat and seen a vast number of
jellyfish swimming in the sea? Have you seen them? And you notice,
they are very hard to see. If they hadn’t got a fine skin on them
to make a highlight you couldn’t see them. They are actually
swimming zones of sea-water, yes? Now our chemistry is very similar
to that of sea-water. We are really jellyfish who have deposited some
calcium and other minerals to make internal skeletons, to lean on, to
rest on. Those jellyfish swim quite nicely but they get carries along
by the oceanic currents. Now we have risen out of that and we say we
are not going to be carried along by external forces that compel us
to do things we don’t want to do. With a very high wind and a very
high storm, many jellyfish get thrown onto the beach and perish. But
we don’t like perishing on beaches so we have worked very hard and
thought very hard and we have been like Jacob, we have Ya
cob, we affirmed the secret, we have kept the
secret of supremacy inside ourselves, we are self-determinant and we
have encouraged other forms of life like the jellyfish to believe
that they are carried away by fortune, by the conditions around them.
We have encouraged them to believe that they have no internal
self-will, that they can’t go where they want, they are not
reflexive.

Now in the Ancient world, in Ancient Egypt, in Babylon
and Greece, in India and China, there were two kinds of beings, and
the beings that made the definitions, defined themselves as gods, and
by gods they meant self- moving essential, spiritual beings;
self-determinant, conditioning their own motions, making their own
decisions and doing whatever they willed to do; and then they said,
and the rest, those that were not self-determinant; those who take
orders from those who are self-determinant. And they called
themselves ‘The Elect,’ and they kept that a very, very great
secret, an elect race, Issus stole the idea for a time but he hadn’t
got the wherewithal to keep it. The real elect don’t mention it.
That is to say, they don’t put their chief trick on the table, face
up, for their opponents. They conceive life as an ocean full of fish
and the fish are like the corks, swimming about and bobbing up and
down, and they have a rule, ‘If it weren’t for the sharks, there
would be no fast swimmers; if it weren’t for the tigers, if it
weren’t for the lions, there would be no fast deer, if it weren’t
for the very clever fellows the other ones would not wake up. So the
very clever ones have a function, namely advancing the evolution of
the rest.

Now there are many people that have claimed to be the
‘Elect’ and probably one of the earliest of all of them were the
Brahmins of India, but the same thing occurred in China, the Son of
Heaven, in Japan the emperor, and some of the Roman emperors, putting
on a radiation like a Sun, and said, “I am a god,” but they knew
what meant when they said a god, they meant a being of total
self-determination, who is not enslaved by the initiative of other
beings.

So a spiritual essential means initiative, a spirit
means initiative here-nowness, essential means precipitating the very
beingness of that spirit into manifestation, into incarnation, in so
far that you have a body and you can persuade that body to move at
your will, you are a god; in so far as when you tell it to get up on
a cold morning, it doesn’t, you are a slave to the temperature.

Track 5

Now imagine, in the cosmic bath, a fantastical number of
corks bobbing up and downand
each cork is a human being, but the cork, like the jellyfish is made
of the same energy that makes the cosmic ocean. Now, what happens if
a power, a force, from beyond Cosmos, we call that a paracosmic
power, energania, energy,
comes in to the system, hits one of the corks? Now that cork goes up
and down in a bit more agitated manner than the other corks it hasn’t
hit, and the cork that receive that extra energy is said to enthuse.
Enthusiasm really means God, that is initiative, that is Spirit Power
has entered into that individual, but the moment that cork goes up
and down more than other corks around it, something happens to the
other corks, what is it, can you tell me?

Envy, envy. Now look at the word envy, it’s made of
the first part of the word, the ‘en’ part En, actually means
being, it means ‘life movement,’ and the VY means developmental
affirmation. When one moves first with initiative, the other thinks
“I could have done that, if I had thought of it.” That is the
history if of invention, “If I had thought of it.” Well how do
you get to the point, where you can, if you are a cork, bobbing up
and down, get to the point where you can bob yourself without waiting
for a blow from Paracosmic energy coming in to hit you and say wake
up!

When energy comes from Para cosmos, into cosmos and hits
an individual cork, he is said to be “inspired,” he becomes
enthusiastic, but that is said to be an act of grace and grace means
free, it means the bondage of the geh,
the hard G, the geo, has been broken and then there emerges, in that
very being, He is suddenly a Rah, a differentiating, discriminating
ruling power. How do you get it without waiting for grace?

Change the timing.

Change the timing, how do you do that?

If all the corks are bobbing up and down at the same
time

Mm mm

Hold for one second and the rest will go down and
this one goes up and that shows enthusiasm…

That’s a very good solution, change the timing. I
think that either Peter, at the moment, is inspired from above or he
has been reading a very deepest Hindu philosophy which says, ‘change
the timing,’ yes? Just change the timing. Timing of what? We will
now attack your brain even more and we will become vampires on your
intelligence and we will suck your mental blood. Tell us more, how
does an individual change his timing?

By first of all recognising that he was started off
as a cork…

Will you mind coming up here please, Peter? Face that
way please., will you carry on your discourse and I’ll have a rest.
He has got the perfect solution, so will you say it loud and clear
please.

By recognising that you are part of the whole cork
group first of all, and then tense and then the rest of the beings
then will go down, the rest of the corks will go down, you would stay
above for a moment and then the timing has changed so this starts to
happen

Yes, and this fellow has the nerve to tell me he wasn’t
Jewish. Why did you say you weren’t Jewish Did you believe you
weren’t or were you just pulling my leg?

Well we’re all Jewish

We are all Jewish in a way, right. Do you want to carry
on and I’ll continue resting or would you like a rest?

What do you prefer?

You carry on.

I’m also very bothered,…

You carry on, tell me when you are ready. Am I allowed
to lie down.

No, like for instance now I feel the point of being
compelled to sit down because that would be the easiest way to act at
this moment…

But he is not going to… because he is an up-bobbing
cork.. success will be this man in his own right, self-rising cork in
the cosmic ocean, doomed to become a millionaire, say hello to him
now while you have got the opportunity. You don’t mind me
interfering do you Peter?

No, actually, that is something else to get me the
interference… because it isn’t actually interference.

Well it is actually, inter-ference.

Then again, you see, that’s the same point again,
it’s a matter of do I accept what you have just said, and although
it’s the truth it means, just having listened to it, repositi into
your mind and then say yes, accept that is the truth and not just go
along with i.

Mmm. In other words when you see a truth, you have to
see it and make it yours before you agree with me.

Yes.

For you know that agreeing with me you are agreeing with
your own insight.

Yes.

Fine. If we can all do that we are doing very well
indeed. Never accept anything that is true of another person until
you first appropriate it, discover for yourself and then accept it
because you personally have made the discovery of it, and then you
are not indebted at all to any other person.

For that fault is your own fault you’ve thought
about stealing.

Yes.

And it would if it stood time because you are
thinking about this idea of stealing and it isn’t a matter of
re-orientating t yourself to realising what stealing means.

No.

It’s quite correct in saying that because it is
what other people have said to keep you in order, but really you are
not stealing using the bounties of God…

Very good, and again Hindu Philosophy. One of my Hindu
friends, worships a goddess, very well known in India, and the
worship consists in stealing and telling lies. And it is still worth
it. It depends how you see it and whether, in worshipping your
goddess, you don’t mind if some other people worshipping another
god or goddess throw you in jail. If being thrown into jail alters
your form of worship, you are not a true believer. Mmmm?

Would you like to carry on then?

As time goes along it becomes more and more
difficult…

That’s only a matter of energy and form.

Like you could say that I’ve put myself in a
position, really, that I have to stay here all the time until I can
accept that…….

You said, you put yourself there didn’t you?

Yes.

Was that strictly true?

Yes.

It was? And you didn’t need an external stimulus to
get you up there?

It may. I allowed… the energy that was put forward
was allowed to act in whichever way it would have done anyway.

Very good, yes. In other words, regardless of what I
said, he would be up here. It’s true you know, it’s true, because
constituted as he is, I know very well how he is going respond, ‘cos
I look at what is not at what isn’t. And I know one or two
gentle-souled people who would not have risen to the bait, don’t I?
I wouldn’t ask Ghreta to help me, she’d help me immediately, like
you, and I’d have to look around for somebody who is a bit tardy at
being helpful, and then pass quickly over it. Would you like to
accept the analysis on those and sit down now?

Yes I would, I’ll sit down now.

Thank you. I think that is worth a round you know.

Track 7

Now Peter’s solution was perfectly correct The cosmic
ocean of sentient power precipitates corks, that is to say, heart
centres, closed with an integument round them, and we are such
centres, whether we like it or not, as the Muslems say. Whether we
like it or not we are centres of power, of hierarchy the ‘cor
‘(khor) aspirate the K sound, you’ve got the same sound, chorus,
CHOR, hierarchy of power inside the closed integument, but observe,
as Peter said, all you have to do is remember that fundamentally, the
jellyfish is only ocean, the jellyfish is seawater. Now, if it
identifies with the integument and thinks I am only a self jellyfish
up to the limit of my integument. It has fallen. It only goes worse,
it contracts itself very tightly ad it makes a shell, like the
crustaceans, like a crab, that’s a bit harder than a jellyfish. You
know that the crustacean, the crabs and so on, have gripe themselves
tighter than the jellyfish because they are more scared.

Now we are going to have three little terms, and we are
going to borrow them from Hindu Philosophy. We could do without them,
but we won’t, because we are lazy, Brahman
means that ocean, the greatest ocean we can think of which is binding
itself. Parabrahman
means beyond that outermost bound, into the Infinite. Brahman
is that great ocean of Sentient Power. Now
inside it, the cork or the jellyfish, inside its integument, is
called atman, ATMAN. I
want you to see that like a jellyfish that is not too tight, it’s a
very loose one, it is very, very, very near to being Brahman,
with a thinintegument,
very, very thin skin, so thin, on a grey day you couldn’t see. You
need the highlight of the Sun to spot, “There is a monad. There is
a one within the Infinite Brahman there
is a one. ” It is one jellyfish, one monad, a one Atman.
So we are now distinguishing there, the Brahman,
that great Cosmic Sentient Power, from a zone within it which is
relaxed, but still zoned, and then we are going to remember the crab
with its hardened zone, tightened up within the Atman,
because it is defensive.

Now it is JIVA, jiva, that
Jiva means the affirmed, individual for
developmental activity

It is now going to decide to develop all the
possibilities.of
finitude within the Infinite. Now think beyond the Brahman
is Parabrahman,
para means beyond, PARA, beyond the Brahman
we say nothing except it is beyond, so when
we mention the Brahman
we means this great, fantastical sphere of Sentient Power, and inside
it, lots of little spheres, Track 8relaxed,
like jellyfish, and they are Atman,
they are yourself in a non-fearing. Relaxed condition responding to
the undulation of the brahmanic ocean,
and then, sometimes it occurs that a given cork is hit by a force and
bobs violently up and down, and
then defends itself against the interference, terrified of
illumination by the God Absolute, and it shrinks, and at that moment,
it hardens its outermost boundary and becomes a crustacean. It’s
like a crab and you know, by the way crabs run, sideways, they give
you evidence. They are terribly fearful, your very, very strong
nippers, very hard, very hard case round then, and that degree of the
hardness is the degree of the fear.

Now just think this is true for every being including
human beings, to the degree that you are afraid of losing something,
you are hard; to the degree that you are prepared to let anything
whatever go, be lost, you are like the jellyfish with the thinnest of
thin membranes. And you can say the atman,
that relaxed jellyfish, cannot be hurt.

Trevor showed me a photograph, recently, where a drop of
water was dropping through a drop of water which was a bubble. Get
some water, blow it up, make a bubble and then let water drip
through that bubble and it fell straight through, and the bubble
remained a bubble. It had penetrated through the bubble but the
bubble hadn’t burst Nice picture that, Trevor, wasn’t it? Can you
imagine, a simple, little experiment, you blow a bubble that is made
of water surrounding air, and then you let water drip onto it in
separate drops like this and it drops straight through the bubble
without bursting it. As the particles and the charges, electrically,
approach, the bubble lets them through, like that. Whatever goes, it
goes,.. let it through. Now, if a human being can do this, that is to
say, be transparent, let every attack go through, every rude word go
through and close and retain yourself without bursting, you’ve done
what that bubble can do. So, apparently the lowest, an object of
scientific research, a mere bubble, illustrates a very high
principle. If you can take an insult and remain yourself undisturbed
and let the insult go through, you are as clever as that bubble.

Track 8

Now imagine again, this cosmic ocean, the Brahman,
and inside it, myriads and myriads of atmanics, those self-closed
forms, but so tenuous they can feel every movement of the Brahman,
every movement of that macrocosmic ocean,
they can feel it. Can you see how sensitive they are? They can feel
the Gulf Stream on that side, not that side; they can feel
temperature differences, and then by changing their shape in the
water, they can travel. You know, that a fish shape, a normal fish is
a double wedge, which is such that the pressure of the water helps it
to swim. Now, imagine in the same way, a jellyfish, going along, on
one side there, part of the Irish Sea is cool and on this side the
Gulf Stream is coming and it feels that’s warmer than that, so the
pressure is greater on the cold side than the hot side to it, because
the pressure is contracting on the cold side and that all the
jellyfish does is alter its shape a little bit and it goes into the
warm water of the Gulf Stream and it has done it by
super-sensitivity. Now at our level called the atmanic
level, the real self, the membrane is so thin it can feel every
intention of the megalocosmos, the Brahman.feel
the intention of surrounding space, feel the gradients of destiny and
then just alter your shape a little bit. So off you go to fulfil a
destiny, but, if you come down to contract yourself and surround
yourself with calcium and mineral salts and harden yourself, you
cannot feel the subtle energies of the Brahmanic
ocean, so you don’t have a destiny, you have fate. Now destiny
means having somewhere valuable to go and fate means what befalls you
because you are crucifies. Remember that FT in FaTe, the same as PD
in PeD, and the FT in FooT, Phallus crucifixion. Fate happens to the
beings that are identified with sexual self imagery, you want to be
potent, you want to be big, you want to be impressive, and because of
that react to every flattering word, to every coaxing to every
temptation, and that reaction is fate, it is not destiny. Destiny is
where your super-sensitivity, you know there is a line of least
resistance that way towards success in any field. You are so
sensitive, you don’t shut down and that if something comes at you,
an arrow, a bullet, any energy whatever of any weapon, an
inter-continental ballistic missile, whatever it is, comes at you,
and you look at it with interest and you open like that and let it
through and close again on your being. Is that an interesting igbu
going through? You can describe it, you can describe the alteration
of your temperature in it’s passive, but you have become
invulnerable. You are not woundable if you can open up in that way.
You open up and you close and you do it immediately, as soon as the
thing hits you, you open up.

Did any of you see the Akido
programme recently? Did you see a fellow of about seventy odd,
turning a very much younger man round like this? Now he did it by
speed and one knowledge. The Universe is a sphere, there are no
straight lines, so do not oppose a force that attacks you with
another force, opposite in line with it. Move at right angles.

Have you all done that exercise with each other before?
Just turn to a person next to you and agree to press your hands
together like that, just press hands with somebody next to you, and
then one of you agrees to keep pressing like that, the other agrees,
instead of pushing back, you will move at right angles like that.
Will you do that with a person next to you, take a hand, press it,
agree to resist first, and then one of you moves sideways and see
what happens.

Now move sideways instead of opposing, and what happens?
Did you notice a general raising of the temperature? Do you know
we’ve actually added a few calories in the room? Who needs electric
heating?

You don’t.

The thing is, if you oppose in the same direction, as if
the bubble, seeing the drop falling on it hardened and went bong,
said the bubble. Taking the bubble to hit that little drop of water,
and it would cease to be what it was, a super-sensitive sensorium,
opening to an experience. Now if you can open to an experience and
still remember who you are, and who you are is a zone of Sentient
Power you can let the experience go right through you and still be
you ad you are not insulted. Now if somebody decides to insult you
and you are not insulted, they are insulted because their insults are
impotent. It is called by Jesus putting coals of fire on heads of
opponents. Don’t react, don’t get mad at them. Take the criticism
and examine it very carefully and immediately let it go through, and
then say, “Next criticism please..” And it ‘s funny the
temperature of the opponent goes up, and his brain works quicker, he
gets smarter, so you are actually doing him a service., by wakening
his brain up, by non-resistance.

Track 9

Now within this cosmic ocean, imagine all the corks, do
it in the bath at home or in a bowl if you haven’t got a bath. Most
people can afford a small bowl, or even a cup, and put some little
floaters in it, corks from guinness bottles, or whatever you are used
to, or champagne, who knows, let them bounce up and down, I don’t
like champagne. Let then bounce up and down, then get a pencil, let
the water go flat and all the corks are there, waiting, and you are
going to play Parabrahman, You
are going to come as a bit of grace disguised as a pencil, and you
select a given corks and you suddenly hit it. What happens to the
cork? It starts bouncing. What happens to the water? The water
vibrates. What happens to the other corks?

They go up and down.

They also respond, don’t they, and unless they are
very super, subtle, sage-type corks that let the stimulus of the
water go through them and close again, they start bobbing up and
down, in reaction to the initiating force that hit the first cork.
Would you believe that that is the key to all that this world calls
success?

Now Peter said the cork that knows that jiva,
atman, Brahman are non-different, has
understood it, so that if another cork is hit by grace and bounces,
instead f reacting to it goes still. Ou let the motion go through
you, you don’t get mad with the initiator, you don’t envy the
initiator, you sat some unfortunate mortal has been inspired, poor
fellow, and see all the other corks bobbing up and down annoyed, and
you sit still. How does it feel like when everybody’s gone mad? If
you can keep you head when all about you are losing theirs and
blaming it on you, you’ll be a man my son.

So all will be effected by this.

Oh yes, they are, but unless they use the bit they get,
they react to the bit the other fellow got. Everybody some at the
atman level and at
atman level they all
get the same amount. But at the jiva
level where the crab has made a harder shell, they defend themselves
unequally, and therefore, their talents are unequal because they are
so busy self-defending unequally, and you know no two human beings
have the same degree of energy of self-defence. And that has quite a
lot to do with the nation, the people from which you derive, some
nations are bashing-type nations and some are not. Those f you who
saw the Japanese film on Karate and then the Indian one on carrare.
There is strength and violence in the first one saw something totally
different, and then terribly subtle and quick in the other one.
That’s to do with nationality, with grace,, with experience, with
terrain, with climate with involved experience.. I can’t press my
hand back and make my fingers touch my forearm but I’ve got several
Indian friends who can. I’m unfortunate. If I could do that I’d
be a bit looser than I am, but I can’t do it so I accept it,.I’m
cursed with a Caucasian (cork-asian) curse on one side of the family.
We’re rigid, terrible isn’t it? But I have to put up with it. It
is part of my fate if I react to it, and it could be part of my
destiny if I am transparent to it

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Now imagine, remember the jellyfish is only the ocean
with a thin skin round it and the skin is made of the same energy as
the jellyfish and the ocean so there actually no difference whatever
between the jellyfish and the ocean, so there is absolutely no
difference whatever between Parabrahman,
Brahman, atman jiva.. Jiva
the empirical egotism in you, the atman
your real intelligent,spiritual
self, the Brahman,
the Cosmic Self, and the beyond Self, the Infinite. There is no
difference. Other than modes of actuality., but the mode of actuality
depends on your will to use your intelligence. Now we are all three
full beings, slung on a co-ordinator. We think, we feel, we activate,
will, drive, and we have a spine to co-ordinate them. We can activate
ourself by thinking or feeling or willing quite differently from
other people. The more we become reflectively ware that our thought
is our will, our feeling is our will, our physical action is our
will, all will expressed in different ways, and then, in History,
some people have been brought up to be superior. A Brahmin
friend of mine will not eat if the shadow of another Indian falls on
his plate. That is the way he has been brought up. And he hasn’t
yet broken his education.

Now, I don’t know whether any of you have been in the
Paris Metro and happen to get next to a humming tramp, have you ever
been near, most people say, an unfortunate? But he is not, it’s the ones that get near
him that are unfortunate! He can’t smell it, but around him, the
clothes that were given to him in 1902 and have not yet been changed
, and as he moves, very minute particles ascend in the atmosphere
and all the other people in the underground lean over like this and
it’s a lovely rosette pattern as seen from above, that’s God’s
viewpoint. God is interested in such rosettes, yes.

Now, imagine, each cork, bobbing up and down, either in
response to either the immediate input of grace, energy from
para through Brahman
to atman,
or, reactively, through fear, or even worse, when two corks are
driven by waves and hit each other in the relation we call
contingency. Contingency means with touch. If two corks hit each
other, they vibrate and they obscure their spontaneous awareness of
the Brahman Cosmic
Ocean, and they confuse, they turbulate the water in which they both
are, they can’t see the pattern of their own beings because of
their contingent, mutual stimulation. You get that with human beings;
if one fellow is in a bad temper and says something rude to another
fellow who reacts in a bad-tempered way and then they both get very
bad-tempered and they involve everybody else. This can be verified in
any public house on a Saturday night. If you wish to go there and
start a fight it is quite easy, you wait till about ten minutes
before closing time and then make a statement about a major religion
or political view. Immediately the temperature changes, lots of
contingency starts. The best thing to do, you go and sit down quietly
in a corner if you can’t get out the door., and watch, observe. And
be like the bubble that lets the stimulus go through, can be very
educational.

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Now we have to remember the jiva,,that
is, your empiric egoic self, the atman,
that’s your true spiritual self separated only by a very thin
membrane from the Brahman,
which is the great Cosmic Self, and the Parabahman
goes beyond all that and at the same time, permeates every layer
within it. The Parabahman penetrates
the Brahman, the
Brahman with the
Parabrahman penetrates
the atman, the atman
penetrates the jiva,
the individual, empirical ego and that thing penetrates nothing
unless it gets down to using swords, daggers, guns and so on, in a
contingent relation with other identified, egoic structures.

Now, when any energy cannot be assimilated, reactive
corks, bouncing up and down is partially destroyed by the
unassimilated energy, not by the assimilated, by the unassimilasted.
When a stimulus comes and hits you. You can assimilate it to a
degree, the part that you assimilate, doesn’t do you any harm, but
the part that you don’t assimilate starts to destroy the pattern of
the energies within you. Therefore, to be free from damage, one must
be totally transparent, totally able to let the stimuli through; and,
at the same time, very alert, very awake to see what it is that is
going through the bubble.

Now what happens, if we say, a person, a cork, a jiva,
an empirical egoic being decides to shut down very tightly and fight
at contingent level, and strike and strike and counter strike, each
blow bruises, that is to say, damages the energy structure of the
individual that it is fighting, and the same time it is damaging its
own knuckles. Some of you boys will remember thumping something you
wished you hadn’t. Do you remember, as a small boy, before you knew
how to make a fist properly and hitting somebody incorrectly and
hurting your knuckle? Do you remember? Or were you always able to
make a good fist, and somewhere in the world the other fellow is
remembering his non- assimilation of the blow. When the energy input
is too great to assimilate, part or whole of the recipient is
destroyed.

Now we have levels of being. Physical destruction is
one; emotional destruction is another; mentational destruction, that
is the time ideas you have; conceptual destruction, your governing
concept of what the world is about; volitional destruction means that
you are discouraged because of the failures of the other four and you
don’t will; and then your zone of awareness becomes totally
turbulated and you can’t do anything and these things are going on
at every level. You can’t touch a physical body of another person
without creating a feeling state, like or dislike, you can’t do
that without making them think a bit mentationally in the time in
which you do it, you can’t do that without rousing in them a
conceptual structure, of forms which belong to eternity, you can’t
do that without the will being presented as a situation to which it
may or may not respond. If it responds mechanically it is no longer
will; if it responds consciously and deliberately with full
awarerness, it is still will and is not damaged.

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Now, imagine the ocean full of corks, bobbing up and
down, try it in the bath, verify that every time you hit a cork, the
motion from the cork goes through the water and makes the other corks
go up and down, and it is possible to get hold of one cork, just as
it is about to rise and put your finger on to stop the rise, that’s
what Peter was meaning. You can get hold of yourself. I mean that you
can see you are a power, a self-determination, you can actually hang
onto your own being, you can have such a concept of your being as a
zone of Sentient Power, utterly self-determined, absolutely valid,
backed by Brahman,
Parabrahman, God and
Godhead to be you in the place where you are.. And when you do that,
you are invulnerable. No matter what happens, you will, not be hurt,
because you have not identified and you have not shut down and tried
to stop assimilation.

Keep repeating to yourself this, “All matter is
energy, the energy is not confined to bodies, it radiates and it is
through all space, there is not space that is not full of energy.
Real space is solid power and that solid power with its intentions
within it, makes the little spheres with their very fine envelopes,
like the jellyfish, the monad, the spiritual atman
and then, that atman
has the power vested in it, vested means dressed in that thin
membrane, the power of the Absolute is inside that being,. your
Absolute Power inside you, and then there is one thing against it,
inertia of mis-education. The Sanskrit word there, MOHA, moha
means stupidity, dull-wittedness, ignorance. You don’t know who you
are; you don’t know that you are Absolute, you don’t know that
you are Infinite; you don’t know that the membrane that surrounds
your body is only power within power, within power, and you fall into
thinking that you are an individual, existential, material being,
subject to the laws of matter and the tyranny of memory and habit.

Now, you can easily see why one great sage said, if you
want freedom, it’s easy, don’t have habits. Whatever it is, don’t
have a habit, physically, emotionally, mentally, conceptually, you
couldn’t have one of volition, because volition means initiative.
Don’t have those four habits. A habit of conceptualising yourself
as a knowledgeable being; a habit of knowing about time events of
World History: what year was it that the Germans invaded Belgium in
the beginning of the fourteen war, what day was it? If you have
that kind of memory you say, mmm “I’m clever,” and you can then
think and repeat and repeat, and then you have to go into a pub where
people want to hear about it an sit there and pontificate about
temporal events. You might have met people that know a particular
period so intimately and then you can get a free lecture without
going to a university just by accepting an invitation to coffee. You
can become if you pick your coffee mornings properly, saves money.
When we remember this we are utterly self-determinant. The empirical
ego, jiva, ,the
atman, the spiritual zone in a fine membrane,
the Brahman, the
Macrocosmic Self, and the Parabrahman
which interpenetrates all, they are all there, simultaneously
operating.

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So if you say, “ Bend a finger,” who is bending it?
The answer is, in the full act, the bender of the finger is the
empirical ego, accepting the energy given to it by the atman, the
spiritual self, accepting the energy of the Brahman,
accepting the energy of the Parabrahman
so that when you do that, god is doing it and beyond God . beond God
is God the Father of God, called the Godhead in theology, who is
bending the finger. All of it is bending the finger. So we have
another expression, Para para, that means beyond beyondness, You see
we have started with a little body and expanded it till we get to the
Infinite, Parabrahman,
and if we go Para, Para, beyond beyondness, we come back in and
incarnate. Now feel inside your body who is beating your heart? Is it
your empirical egotism?

Yes.

No, can’t be because you only acquired that through
mis-education, after birth what it is that is formulating that heart
and beating it inside an embryo, you get a sonic scanner today, you
can see babies in the womb an there are little pulsings gradually
forming organ , who is forming the organs in that developing
protoplasmic mass? Who is it that divides the one cell into two,
four, eight, sixteen? Who is it? Not the empirical ego. It is the
Para Para, it is the Absolute Infinite focussing inwards to make a
new being. Now when you get slapped when you are born, that is a
contingent stimulus tha threatens to destroy your awareness of your
Absolute origin and then you become afraid, and like the crab, you
harden, you are frightened of speaking your mind

Is there a person here afraid to speak about anything.
If so, stand up and speak about that which he doesn’t wish to speak
about, and he will conquer the inertias of empirical, badly- trained
egotism. When I was Andrew’s age and earlier, I had a funny habit
of saying things that were deliberately designed to test the
responses of political figures. So, if you go in the best seats, I
remember at the time, it was two guineas to see Oswald Mosley. There
were cheaper seats, but if you were in the best seats, you were
assumed to be a fascist, so they didn’t expect interruptions from
the few front rows, and I and a few friends of mine used to sit on
the front row and then heckle from there. Because the fundamental
idea of fascism is that a mass of stupid, ignorant people can be
controlled either by one man or an oligarchy, a few men who are so
cunning, so powerful, that they can make a mass of people count
themselves as nothing but tools of the few. Now, unfortunately, or,
fortunately, I was cursed with individuality. Remember curse means
run round.

Now, insofar as you are prepared to affirm your
individuality, internally, you don’t need to shout it out, or you
could, depending on how much nuisance you wish to let loose, and
insofar as you affirm your innermost self-determination, you are
necessarily against the fascist concept. You believe that every
individual, every jiva
is nothing but Parabrahman, Brahman, atman
incarnate in a living human being, and that no one, no matter how
bog, how old, how physically strong, how mentally clever, is in any
way justified in making you, from outside, by contingency, do
something that you do not will to do.

And if you are transparent, if you are not hardened with
fear like the crab, you cab feel, like the jellyfish in the ocean,
the currents. You can actually feel a movement amongst the crowd,
like I felt the movement on one occasion the movement of a lead pipe
goiong through the air before it was raised so it was not on my neck
that it was landed. On that occasion it landed on the neck of Oswald
Mosley, who was the British representative of the Hitler-Mussolini
clan. If you are quite sensitive you can feel the crowd moving, and
you can feel where they are moving and you can say, “This way,
gentlemen,” and let them go by. If you are very smart, you can have
a little chestnut stand for later, selling hot chestnuts. There is no
situation in which you can’t sell something, but your sensitivity
to the movement of the ocean is essential to know what that commodity
is.

Now how do you all feel if you say to yourself, “God
is the God of the living. “.You know, you repeat it, God is the God
of Abraham, of the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, and so on. You
don’t say He is the God of |Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, because that
would be a group, because that would be a group. He is not the God of
a group, He is the God of every, human , individual, spiritual self
and therefore he has to be your God for you individually, whoever you
are, He has to be your God, not just the God of humanity at large,
and that God is free, initiative, here operative, now, spiritual
being.